the #obsessive discourse emphasizes the rules (the conventions) over the law (of the speech), meaning the moral over the ethics

the #obsessive discourse greatly emphasises the #rules, even though the obsessive discourse itself shows the impossibility of the rules.

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the #obsessive discourse emphasises the rules, as a defense from the effects of the #speech

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the #rules, particularly in the #obsessive discourse, are to compensate a lack in the relation with the #Other

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Despite any evidence, despite all the disappointments, the hysteric still imagines that somewhere there is one who is non-castrated and who will give him/her what s/he wants (and the knowledge s/he asks for) http://buff.ly/2drHIE2

both #melancholia and #mania say: this is not 'the' object

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What does a woman ask for, to the other woman (e.g. the mother) of her man? What is her curiosity about?

the #hysteric #discourse is well represented by the circle. It goes round and round, and back to the starting point

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Defining the psychoanalytic 'listening' is extremely difficult. However, I consider 'listening' as the very core of psychoanalysis and what distinguishes psychoanalysis from any other approach. A couple of days ago the journal "Research on Social Work Practice" published my paper on the development of a (psychoanalytic) listening scale. This uni-dimensional scale only represents a "early" stage toward a definition of psychoanalytic listening. Likely, psychoanalytic listening encompasses more dimensions, not just one. Nevertheless, this scale may represent a starting point. You can find the full article here: http://buff.ly/2cnSAWn

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often times, the #symptom occurs by #contrapasso or #counterpose

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the #Other is not stupid; so, the #symptom is not a mistake

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When listening psychoanalytically (which by the way is for me the only listening) it is clear that the symptom is a 'compromise formation'. Far from being the problem, the symptom is instead an incredible resource. In some cases, we should even wish the symptom is not solved too soon.

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What is shame ? Is it the feeling of having something less? No. Shame is the feeling of humiliation consequent to having desired; a horrible, unspeakable desire that could leak out to others. Shame is the personification of the subjective division: I desired, but I should be whole

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#Eroticism grounds on reciprocity, on the #imaginary capture of the object. On #narcissism.

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In eroticism there is no mystery. There are no signs of any subjective division (e.g. questions, surprise, dream), as it is when the subject is overcome by the desire. In eroticism the object is clear, and it is already and always there, in foreground. Eroticism grounds on certainty!

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Sexuality is when the speech is seductive, not the subject. Eroticism is when the subject is seductive (although it is a seduction without the Other, which is represented). Pornography (which is the writing of the sale) is when the object is seductive.

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My book. Coming very soon. #psychoanalysis Hong Kong #routledge

The object of pornography is not just an object that is available (passive, submitted) and gives pleasure. It is primarily an object that validate one's own fantasy (for example, by showing that he or she is receiving pleasure).

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Prostitution (and to some extent pornography) is attractive to some because the object seems to be always available, without interdict. Available: from avail + -able, meaning "at one's disposal, capable of being made use of". In this sense, prostitution is a fantasy of incest.

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Certainty is an expression of the maternal fantasme, since "mater semper certa est" (the mother is always certain). The maternal fantasme is believing that there is only one version

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the maternal fantasme can appear as fantasy of 'transmission' or 'program'. Transmission: as data transmission, as something that is transferred from one person to another, from one place to another, from a time to another, and/or from a generation to another. But also transmission as (e.g. tv) program. Program: as playing a script; but also as being programmed; finally, as not having one's own voice

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Depression/depress: from Latin deprimere, meaning "press down", being composed by "de" (down) + "premere" (to press). To put down by force. Depression indicates an excess of pressure; not a lack of pressure.

-realizing the other's desire- this may become a *mission* for the hysteric (unless directly asked to do so, in which case s/he will say no)

hysteria can devote herself to completing any lack in the other/Other. Then, she can be very harsh on herself when she fails to do so

#hysteria finds unacceptable the subjective division (S/). All his/her effort aims at neglecting/forgetting the bar (/), imagining that is possible to restore the full subject.

#Experience is effect of the #writing because the speech is originary: we happen to say something that sur-prises us

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Sustainability is the ability to "indefinitely" sustain (to hold, continue, keep up). On the one hand, sustain can e understood as "suffering" (th etymology seems to be similar). On the other hand, sustainability opposes any representation of the end; things do not terminate, life is not a circle where everything has a beginning and an end. In a time of consumerism when most things (i.e. goods and relationships) are imagined as short-term and replaceable, sustainability introduces a significant shift.

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The writing of the experience is not the report of facts or thoughts. It is not a "report" at all. It is not a "recollection" of memories, statements, ideas, or beliefs. Freud: "my clinical cases read like novels". The "writing of the experience" means that something remains, something that is beyond the subject. It means that the writing (thus, the speech) is originary, and that the experience comes as a consequence of the speech. http://buff.ly/2c7bNYK

Schreber and “homo-sexuality”. Freud explains paranoia as the consequence of repressed homosexual fantasies; he then emphasize the “sexual” part of the term homo-sexuality. Conversely, Lacan suggests that homosexuality is a consequence of paranoia; he then insists on the “homo” part of the term, meaning the relation with the similar person or the specular image.

In psychosys the speech produces dissociation or splitting (in the real) rather than cut or division (in the symbolic registry). Can we then say that there is sexuality in psychoses?